Sri Lanka holds rates to manage inflation, foster economic stability COLOMBO, May 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central bank held interest rates steady on Tuesday to ensure inflation pressures remain in check as authorities look to foster economic stability and lift ... 05/27/2024 - 8:54 pm | View Link
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Whose ‘national security’ is the state supposed to safeguard? had informed Indian anti-terrorist intelligence of their earlier association with Sri Lanka’s National Thowheed Jamath implicated in the Easter Sunday attacks on Sri Lanka’s churches and hotels in ... 05/25/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka regained its preferential trade status under the European Union’s Generalized System of Preferences Plus, enabling many of its firms to export products, including its top export ... 05/23/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
Charmed by Sri Lanka Unexpected pleasures mark a Sri Lankan sojourn. Sri Lanka’s endless stretch of sea and sand is legendary and it’s easy to visit the country and never leave its palm tree-lined coast. 05/23/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito.
Roberts’ response came in a letter to the senators a day after Alito separately wrote them and House members to reject their demands that he recuse himself from major Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and the Jan.
OpenAI identified and removed five covert influence operations based in Russia, China, Iran and Israel that were using its artificial intelligence tools to manipulate public opinion, the company said on Thursday.
In a new report, OpenAI detailed how these groups, some of which are linked to known propaganda campaigns, used the company’s tools for a variety of “deceptive activities.” These included generating social media comments, articles, and images in multiple languages, creating names and biographies for fake accounts, debugging code, and translating and proofreading texts.
Every aspect of a Knives Out movie is meticulously planned: The gorgeous locales set an ominous mood; the carefully plotted twists are revealed at just the right moment; even the sweaters are laden with meaning. But the best part of this comic-mystery franchise is the casting.
It’s not just that each movie is stacked with heavy hitters like Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Plummer and chock full of unexpected cameos.
Notorious B. I. G.’s mother, Voletta Wallace, wants to “slap the daylights out of” Sean “Diddy” Combs in light of video footage released this month of the music mogul assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie in 2016.
Wallace made the remarks in an interview published in Rolling Stone on Thursday, also calling for Combs to apologize to Cassie for the assault.
Agadir, Morocco — The head of the U. S. military in Africa vigorously defended the country’s counterterrorism strategy on the continent and vowed to press forward with it despite a wave of criticism and a drift among African nations toward seeking security help from Russia instead.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday at Africa Lion, a war games exercise in Morocco, Gen.